The tighter cold-start is hurting mid-size original news accounts that break stories first.Example: Spanish F1 news. I post official news, details and videos first (~55k followers). A larger competitor (~185k) often posts the same topic later. Before Aug 26, the first good post could still win For You. After the change, Home-view velocity from a bigger existing audience outweighs being first.Side effect: the update rewards follower-base size over speed and original reporting. Topic pages become “who already has the bigger Home pool”, not “who published first with better context”.Posts about my core audience (Alonso / Aston Martin) still travel because they get in-network Home views. Broader F1 news dropped hard.Please consider softening Top-K or not making early Home views dominate out-of-network retrieval for timely news. Otherwise the incentive is: be bigger, not faster or more original.
The tighter cold-start is hurting mid-size original news accounts that break stories first.Example: Spanish F1 news. I post official news, details and videos first (~55k followers). A larger competitor (~185k) often posts the same topic later. Before Aug 26, the first good post could still win For You. After the change, Home-view velocity from a bigger existing audience outweighs being first.Side effect: the update rewards follower-base size over speed and original reporting. Topic pages become “who already has the bigger Home pool”, not “who published first with better context”.Posts about my core audience (Alonso / Aston Martin) still travel because they get in-network Home views. Broader F1 news dropped hard.Please consider softening Top-K or not making early Home views dominate out-of-network retrieval for timely news. Otherwise the incentive is: be bigger, not faster or more original.